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1. See note to chapter 74. TheStreamwhichis so conspicuous
   but cannot be reached is the Milky Way,andthe Leg is the constel
   lationCassiopeiain the Northern Sky.


2. Stoop, (I vK. Thiscomparisonoccursrepeatedlyin the
   PyramidTexts,and others of the early periods.


3. Achmiu Stars(I v\ ® ^\ v\ * so Ab, givinganother
   proofthatthe word is to be taken as a noun, andnot as a negative.


4. See chapter 30A,on " The Crocodile of the West wholives
   on the Setting Stars."


5. So Ab, but perhaps wrongly. I dare not fill up the lacunae of
   this text.


6. Fellow-citizens. The translationhere is necessarily conjec
   tural. But I understand by fellow-citizens (avpiro~nai)the dwellers
   of that city of which the deceased says,in chapter 17, "I arrive at
   my own city, ^r-"* Andthis «7y is explained by the ancient
   scholionas being "theHorizon"E^1 [or, asLepsius moreaccurately
   translatesit, 'der Sonnenberg']of my father Tmu." It is no eaithly
   city that is thought of, but an eternal one.

* I take thisopportunity of correcting my former translation,wherethe

preposition b^,, which twiceoccursin the passage, is both timesrenderedby the

sameword,from. Butthe sense of a preposition reallydependsuponthe verb

whichit follows. Thesame English wordwill not suitthe French dc in

' s.approcherde ' and ' s'eloigner de. '

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